When Tom spoke to Jimmy in the morning, he seemed much as he had the evening before. Tom was still worried, however, especially after he called him again later in the day and got no answer. At around 3:00 in the afternoon Tom went up to the room. He found Jimmy sprawled on his bed, unresponsive and unable to talk, almost unconscious. He had wet himself and everything in his room was knocked about. When Tom asked what was going on, Jimmy could only laugh and make ambiguous hand gestures. Tom then called Raymond Foye, who came down from his apartment. They called an ambulance, but while Raymond was out in the hall meeting the medics, Jimmy had a seizure and flung himself to the floor. When Jimmy had finally been loaded into the ambulance and it had begun to pull out from the front of the hotel, a car ran into it, and the first ambulance had to wait at the accident scene while another one was sent for. Finally Jimmy made it to St. Vincent’s, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit. A CT scan and other tests showed that Jimmy had had a stroke and a heart attack, but the heart attack had been more than twenty-four hours earlier. That evening, he remained unconscious and was on a respirator.
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